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- 2019 · Duo Brüggen-Plank
Composer · 1881 - 1955
George Enescu
- University of Illinois Orchestra, John M. Kuypers, George Enescu
- Soo Han, Darrell Umhoefer, All-State Philharmonic Orchestra
- Nicolae Moldoveanu, Romanian National Radio Orchestra Bucharest, Luiza Borac
- César Franck, Guillaume Lekeu, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Johannes Brahms, Béla Bartók, Karol Szymanowski, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yehudi Menuhin, Felix Mendelssohn, Hephzibah Menuhin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Enescu, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Sir Edward Elgar, Franz Schubert
- Tobias Borsboom, Dimitri Tchesnokov, Ekaterina Litvintseva, Mattia Ometto, Pavel Gintov, Nare Karoyan, Mark Viner, Saskia Giorgini, Vincenzo Maltempo
Biography
George Enescu (1881-1955) was a gifted musician who was as proficient a composer and pianist as he was a great violinist. The stylistically varied nature of his compositions reflects his cosmopolitan life, spent primarily in Romania and France. His early music, including the popular Romanian Rhapsodies, use folk music, while his opera Oedipe features motivic development that stems from the influence of Austro-Germanic composers. Enescu's violin and cello sonatas and the string quartets combine elements of both, emphasizing the interplay of melodic lines, while his symphonies and piano music often have neo-classical and Impressionistic facets to them.